DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint 01 Apr 2009Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2007 United Kingdom English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Theoretical Computer Science, volume 410, pages 1,440-1,447 (issn: 0304-3975,

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Authors: Grayson, N.E.; Taormina, A.; Twarock, R.;

doi: 10.1016/j.tcs.2008.12.005 , 10.48550/arxiv.0711.4344

arXiv: 0711.4344

DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry

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A construction method for duplex cage structures with icosahedral sym- metry made out of single-stranded DNA molecules is presented and applied to an icosidodecahedral cage. It is shown via a mixture of analytic and computer techniques that there exist realisations of this graph in terms of two circular DNA molecules. These blueprints for the organisation of a cage structure with a noncrystallographic symmetry may assist in the design of containers made from DNA for applications in nanotechnology.

13 pages, LaTex, 9 figures; focus on vertex junctions that are experimentally realizable, some figures upgraded, some removed

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Keywords

Synthetic DNA cage, Icosahedral symmetry., Biomolecules (q-bio.BM), synthetic DNA cage, Icosahedral symmetry, Theoretical Computer Science, icosahedral symmetry, Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules, FOS: Biological sciences, Bionanotechnology, Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects), bionanotechnology, Computer Science(all)

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